Having finally gotten OS 4.2 working reasonably well in Parallels, and having learned some of the OS idiosyncracies, I wonder what you all use your machines for?
I find that, unfortunately, the lack of a modern browser/RSS reader, etc., means I really can't use it for everyday stuff.
No one? Did I somehow offend by asking this question?
Didn't mean to. I'm genuinely curious.
I mostly use mine as a "tinker-toy" with the email server, and WebObjects.
UPDATE:
I also use the Digital Librarian app for indexing my notes for school.
I have one that I often use as a terminal, and another that I use for 'spelunking'. I still find the monochrome displays to be some of the best on the eyes...
I use my Cube as web server, email access,
My Turbo Color has been running "all pegged out" over the last few months compiling ports of GNU and other open source software. This is all in an effort to modernize NS 3.3 a little bit. Why? It's about the journey and not about the destination itself :-).
I found that this allowed me to get back into tinkering with code, without the complexities of modern operating systems...
The awesome thing that I discovered is that after my hardware "refresh" the machine has been running 100% reliably with no crashes, lockups or any other weirdness.
When I find interessting C-source code, I often try it first on my NeXTstation. Lately I found the sourcecode for 'Dungeon' (aka Zork) and compiled it there.
I also use my NeXTstation for reading and writing floppy disks since it is the only working computer with a floppy drive and network connection.
only use for study.
not use regular main os.
The Cube is hiding somewhere in the back yard, probably under a bush. It makes a great stool.
My NeXTstation sold in pieces on Ebay in 2010, i kept only the case. I don't know what to do with it. Now, for me, living in the past means using Snow Leopard on an iMac early 2008. I am more interested in women now.
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Quote from: "nextime"The Cube is hiding somewhere in the back yard, probably under a bush. It makes a great stool.
Cubes are pretty
durable (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbum/2643285301/). :mrgreen:
I use my NEXTSTEP 3.3 PC mostly for creating and editing PostScript figures with Tailor.app, and using TeX, but also Mathematica 3.0. It's also my main desktop at work, though with about 20 years of email, the disk is filling up. I have only about 800 MB left!
NEXTSTEP is so spare an OS that it is faster on this 650 MHz Pentium III than Snow Leopard is on my 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro.
I'm just getting my first Cube set up. I purchased all the 10base2/T equipment to get it networked.
My goals are to:
1. Possess (and take good care of) a working piece of computing history.
2. Better understand the roots of Mac OS X and the evolution of Steve Jobs' products from Apple -> NeXT -> Apple.
3. Experience NeXTstep in the same manner as users would have in the late 80s and early 90s.
4. Find a way to make the computer useful and communicative with my other computers, and the internet (in some way, shape, or form).
That last one is going to be tough. Sounds like even using a NeXT machine for email is a real struggle to set up. I'm excited for the challenge, and proud to be an owner!
Lately I would telnet into my NeXTstation Color from work to use it as a calculator. I had octave installed and I needed to write out the steps to a coordinate transform to try to improve it's efficiency. I had the machine running for about 40 days before a power outage shut it down. I need to get a UPS supply before I risk corrupting the disk again.
Now that I know that NextStep runs on VMware I'm having all kinds of fun running it on my laptop and desktop at work. I installed Cedarword and perl and plan to use it for notes and writing my data processing scripts, just to make work a little more fun. ;-)